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In the Erzgebirgskreis district, the ballot papers for the district elections have to be reprinted and distributed. The contracted printing company had produced and distributed unauthorized ballot papers for the election on 9 June, as announced by th ..
In the Erzgebirgskreis district, the ballot papers for the district elections have to be reprinted and distributed. The contracted printing company had produced and distributed unauthorized ballot papers for the election on 9 June, as announced by the district administration office in Annaberg-Buchh ..
Just over a week ago, Matthias Ecke was beaten until he was hospitalized while putting up election posters in Dresden. He is not intimidated by this.
Around 50 damaged election posters have been discovered in two districts of Dresden. According to the police on Wednesday, 26 election posters were discovered sprayed with red and black paint on streets in the Räcknitz area the day before. The following night, a witness in Pieschen observed a man te ..
Yvonne Mosler and Cornelius Sternkopf were attacked while putting up election posters. The perpetrators were arrested by the police.
The federal and state interior ministers are discussing more protection for political activists following violent attacks on politicians. Saxony is planning a Bundesrat initiative to toughen penalties.
Saxony's police have long assumed that this year's election campaign will be different from all previous ones. The mood in the state is too heated. That is why special precautions are to be taken.
An SPD politician is attacked in Dresden - it is not the only case. Now the interior ministers are talking about better protection. The SPD and Greens are calling for consistent action.
Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) expects concrete results from the consultations on the consequences of attacks on election campaigners.
The Saxon State Parliament's Committee on Internal Affairs discusses the current attacks on election workers and protection during election campaigns
Leipzig MP Sören Pellmann (Left Party) has been threatened again, according to his own statements. On Monday morning, dog excrement and a flyer smeared with swastikas and threats were found in the letterbox of his constituency office, he announced on Monday. This was the second time in four days. "I ..
The LKA Saxony assigns at least one suspect to the right-wing spectrum. Zeit Online reports.
After the attack while putting up election posters in Dresden, SPD MEP Matthias Ecke has sent a message of thanks from the hospital. "I am overwhelmed by your sympathy and solidarity," Ecke wrote in a post on the X platform (previously: Twitter) on Monday. It does him good and gives him strength. Bu ..
The CDU and AfD are still neck-and-neck in the run-up to the state elections in Saxony on September 1, according to a new poll by the opinion research institute Civey. In the latest survey by Civey and "Sächsische.de", the AfD landed at 32 percent in the Sunday poll, followed by the CDU with 30 perc ..
The outrage over the cowardly and brutal attack on election campaigners in Saxony continues. The bishops in the Free State are also speaking out against violence and attempts at intimidation.
Following the attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke in Dresden, the Saxon Interior Minister has announced close coordination with the parties to protect their election campaigners.
An SPD politician is brutally beaten up during an election campaign in Dresden - the horror is great. Consequences are now being discussed. However, suspected perpetrators are also still being sought.
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser is calling for better protection for politicians and helpers during election campaigns. "We need an even more visible police presence on the ground to protect democrats at campaign stands and events," the SPD politician told the Rheinische Post newspaper ..
In addition to the European elections and three state elections, tens of thousands of municipal seats will also be up for grabs in 2024. One association is concerned about the increasing number of attacks on politicians and election workers.
Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has condemned the growing aggression and increasing violence within society. "These are enemies of democracy (...) It really is five to twelve," he said on the ARD program "Caren Miosga" on Sunday evening. It was important to put a stop to this. W ..
Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck calls for solidarity in the face of frequent attacks on politicians. Attacks are an expression of the brutalization of political debate.
After the attack on SPD politician Matthias Ecke, around 2,000 people demonstrated for democracy and against violence in Dresden, according to police reports. They gathered in the Striesen district early on Sunday evening. Ecke had been beaten up there on Friday evening by four young men while putti ..
A Green Party election worker in Dresden was punched and kicked several times. The perpetrators could belong to the right-wing spectrum.
Dresden SPD MEP Matthias Ecke underwent surgery after attack and is doing well under the circumstances.
SPD MEP Matthias Ecke will continue his election campaign after his recovery. Party feels solidarity and support after the attack.
After the attack on an SPD politician in Dresden, the crimes during the election campaign continue. The city's police are alerted to an attack on an AfD stand and damaged election posters for various parties.
Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has sharply criticized the recent attacks on politicians. "Brutal attacks on committed democrats, campaigners and politicians are attacks on the foundation of our #democracy: free elections," the Green politician wrote on the platform X, formerly Twitter, o ..
Left Party leader Janine Wissler and Saxon party chairwoman Susanne Schaper have described the attacks on campaigners as an "attack on democracy". Democrats must stand together against the danger from the right-wing fringe, they said in a statement from the Left Party state association on Saturday. ..
Unknown persons attack SPD MEP Ecke while he is putting up election posters. The Left Party declares its solidarity with him, while the FDP and BSW condemn the attack.
Saxony's DGB Chairman Markus Schlimbach condemns the attacks on election campaigners from various democratic parties in Saxony.
Federal President Steinmeier condemns violent attacks on SPD and Green Party politicians and calls for joint action.
The Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, has strongly condemned the recent attacks on politicians. "The events in Dresden and elsewhere are abhorrent and leave us stunned," the SPD politician said in Mainz on Saturday. "It is a calculated use of violence to intimidate democrats." ..
Young men aged between 17 and 20 attack Matthias Ecke and Green Party election workers while putting up election posters in Striesen. Ecke is injured and requires surgery.
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, has assured SPD MEP Matthias Ecke of her support and solidarity following the attack on him. She was "appalled by the vicious attack", Metsola wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter). Those responsible must be brought to justice. "Matthia ..
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) condemns attack on Matthias Ecke (SPD) in Dresden and calls for united action against right-wing violence.
Carsten Schneider (SPD), the Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany, is calling for a crackdown following the attack on the Saxon SPD European candidate Matthias Ecke when he put up election posters.
The AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla has condemned the brutal attack by unknown persons on the Saxon SPD MEP Matthias Ecke. "We deeply condemn physical attacks against politicians of all parties. Election campaigns must be conducted in a tough and constructive manner, but without violence," wrote the lea ..
Federal politicians have expressed their dismay at an attack on the Saxon MEP Matthias Ecke (SPD) while he was putting up posters in Dresden. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) declared on Saturday that she condemned the serious act of violence in the strongest terms. At the same time, she ..
Saxon SPD MEP Matthias Ecke is attacked and injured by unknown persons while putting up posters. The Minister President is horrified by the attack.
Saxony's Interior Minister Armin Schuster condemns attacks on SPD MEPs and Green election workers. Protection of public officials and elected representatives is a high priority.
Four unknown persons attack the SPD's leading candidate in the European elections while putting up election posters. A Green Party campaign worker was presumably the victim of the same group of perpetrators.
Just over a month before the European and local elections on June 9, the postal voting office in Leipzig will open next Wednesday. Due to the expected high volume of postal vote applications, a special exhibition construction has been installed in the New Town Hall, as the city announced on Friday. ..
Following allegations of possible Russian and Chinese connections and the arrest of an employee, AfD top candidate Krah is back on the campaign trail. In Chemnitz, his party is met with loud counter-protest.
After being arrested in connection with Chinese espionage, Maximilian Krah appears at election campaign events in Chemnitz and Dresden.
Local elections will be held in Saxony on June 9. Several hundred posters were damaged in Leipzig at the weekend. Which party is affected?
Around 400 CDU election posters in Leipzig have been destroyed and stolen. The district association laments unprecedented poster vandalism.
In the European elections on June 9, people in Saxony will have the choice between 34 parties and political associations. The ballot paper will be around 81 centimetres long.
The Dresden Public Prosecutor General's Office is conducting preliminary investigations into possible payments from Russia and China to Maximilian Krah, the AfD's leading candidate for the European elections.
Following reports of possible payments from pro-Russian patrons to the AfD's leading candidate for the European elections, Krah, the public prosecutor's office in Dresden is now also getting involved.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) wants to join the government after the state elections in Saxony. "We are running to change things - and to do that, you have to govern," BSW state chairwoman Sabine Zimmermann told the Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper (Monday edition). Her party would also not b ..
Several thousand volunteers have registered as election assistants for the super election year in Saxony - but the search continues.
The city of Dresden is still looking for electoral assistants for the super election year. The city announced on Thursday that around 5,000 volunteers have signed up so far. For the European and local elections on June 9 and the state elections on September 1, around 1,000 volunteers are still neede ..
The BSI warns against disinformation on the internet in view of the state elections in eastern Germany and emphasizes the dangers of opinion amplifiers and cyber attacks.
The Werteunion is now also positioning itself as a party in Saxony and wants to have a say in the state elections. However, the conservatives in the Free State are divided. One part continues to play politics as the Heimatunion within the CDU.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) believes it is well positioned for the local elections in Saxony. On June 9, they will be running in almost all districts, in the three cities of Chemnitz, Dresden and Leipzig as well as in many smaller towns and municipalities, explained the Saxon BSW leader Sab ..
At the beginning of March, the AfD politician Weigand won the mayoral election in Großschirma in central Saxony. Now the election has been declared invalid. Weigand does not want to accept this.
There are 15 parties and voter associations on the ballot paper for the city council elections in Dresden on June 9. 12 of them have been registered in all eleven constituencies, including the AfD, the CDU, the Left Party, the SPD and the Greens, the city administration announced on Friday. The muni ..
The Werteunion wants to found its third state association in Saxony and prepare for the state elections in September.
Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer sees the danger of the state becoming ungovernable after the state elections on September 1. "I am warning of Thuringian conditions", the CDU politician told the "Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung" (Wednesday). The past five years have been extremely difficult ..
The Saxony Children's and Youth Ring advocates lowering the voting age to 16 for state and local elections, as young people are already actively involved in society.
The CDU in Saxony is not seeking to continue the coalition with the Greens, as tensions have increased and a stable two-party alliance is preferred.
Saxony's AfD is currently ahead in the election polls. Experts such as Dresden political scientist Hans Vorländer speak of a snapshot and consider the outcome of the state election to be open.
A broad alliance in Leipzig wants to mobilize against racism and right-wing extremism with large demonstrations ahead of the local and European elections as well as the state elections this year. More than 100 organizations and citizens have signed the appeal of the alliance "Hand in Hand for Democr ..
While the AfD received the most votes in a poll, two governing parties are worried about entering the state parliament.
Lusatian stakeholders want to help shape their region in the run-up to the local elections. To this end, the young generation in particular should take up political office with ideas and visions. The "Young Lusatia" network provides support in a special way.
The AfD in Saxony is preparing for the state elections and is targeting the CDU and Minister President Kretschmer.
Saxony's AfD state leader is leading his party into the state elections on September 1 as the top candidate. At the state party conference in Glauchau, the 59-year-old received almost 92 percent of the valid votes. There was no opposing candidate.In his candidacy speech, Urban criticized high electr ..
At the start of its state party conference in Glauchau, the AfD reaffirmed its ambition to become the strongest force in Saxony in the state elections in September. After the election, the AfD has a real chance of posing the question of power and leading a new government, said state leader Jörg Urba ..
In Glauchau, the Saxon AfD wants to set the personnel course for the state elections on September 1 in order to avoid mistakes in the state list. The party conference lasts four days.
Rolf Weigand wins with 59.4% in the small town of Großschirma. Second AfD mayor in Saxony.
The upcoming elections in the eastern German states in the fall will focus on political stability throughout Germany.
The CDU wants to become the party with the most votes in the state elections in Saxony, as it did five years ago. The AfD is currently ahead in the polls. "Our goal is to clearly become the strongest party in the Saxony elections and to form a stable government from the center under the leadership o ..
Thousands of positions will be filled in the upcoming local elections in Brandenburg this year. In the election, "over 7,000 honorary representatives will be elected to the 14 district councils and 413 city councils and municipal councils", explained state election director Herbert Trimbach on Frida ..
Berlin has partially repeated the Bundestag election of September 2021. The official final result is now available. But this is not the final step.
In view of the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, Federal President Steinmeier calls for more democratic debate and warns against hatred and violence.
The new BSW party of former Left Party politician Sahra Wagenknecht wants to run in the state elections in the east in the fall. She is founding her first state association in Saxony.
The people of Saxony are being called to vote in three elections this year. The local authorities are still urgently looking for helpers.
Saxony's Minister-President Michael Kretschmer does not want the Union's candidacy for chancellor to be decided until after the state elections in the fall.
The internet is full of information - but not all of it can be trusted. An initiative wants to help create more expertise in dealing with information about the elections in Saxony.
This time, the Free Voters in Saxony want to make it into the state parliament. A crisis-tested and prominent local politician is leading them - as a top candidate with great support.
"We have achieved a lot, but we still have more to do." These are the words of the Saxon Greens' program for the state elections. The party is self-confident, even if it is weakening in the polls.
Regardless of the mood in the state, the Greens in Saxony want to maintain their course and advocate the modernization of the Free State.
Faced with poor poll ratings, the Saxon Left is practising self-criticism. "We have simply been too preoccupied with ourselves over the past year and a half. That is unattractive for every voter," said the co-chairman of the Left Party Saxony, Stefan Hartmann, to the "Sächsische Zeitung" (Friday). T ..
In a recent poll in Saxony on the so-called Sunday question, the newly founded Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) alliance comes out as the third strongest force. The survey was commissioned by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is planning to run in the Saxon local and state elections and is feeling a sense of optimism.
This Saturday (from 10.00 a.m.), the CDU, SPD and FDP want to set the course for the Saxon state parliamentary elections on September 1.
The Left Party in the Saxon state parliament is pushing for the voting age to be lowered to 16. Specifically, they are concerned with state and local elections. This already applies to the European elections. Following a hearing in parliament on Wednesday, parliamentary group leader Rico Gebhardt re ..
Survey shows that only a minority of voters in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia believe that there are better alternatives to the current prime ministers.
With her new alliance, party founder Sahra Wagenknecht is hoping for a strong showing in the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg in the fall.
Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs, Martin Dulig, invites people to his kitchen table to discuss their questions and concerns in this super election year.
According to a Forsa survey, the AfD would be the strongest party in state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg.
Saxony's FDP is kicking off the election year with several events for its traditional Epiphany meeting.
Andreas Voßkuhle warns of an erosion of democracy and the rule of law if the AfD wins the state elections in the east next year.
The Greens are sometimes stressful, and Bundestag Vice-President Katrin Göring-Eckardt knows that. In an interview with dpa, however, she contradicts the accusation of being a banned party - with an announcement about the neck steak.
The Greens are sometimes stressful, and Bundestag Vice-President Katrin Göring-Eckardt knows that. In an interview with dpa, however, she contradicts the accusation of being a banned party - with an announcement about the neck steak.
In view of poor poll ratings for the Greens ahead of the state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg next year, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) has called for the parties to have a greater presence in rural areas.
The CDU is reactivating Wolfgang Bosbach for its election campaign in eastern Germany. The conservative politician emphasizes that he is not primarily fighting against the AfD, but for the CDU.
In view of the upcoming state elections in several eastern German states, industry president Siegfried Russwurm has warned against AfD successes. "A political movement that invokes the turn back to nationalism is harmful for this country: for the economy and for Germany's reputation and success in a ..
The Greens have called for a self-critical analysis following the victory of the AfD candidate in the mayoral election in Pirna. "The election victory in conjunction with the low voter turnout of 53 percent clearly shows that democratic parties, including us Greens of course, are currently failing t ..
The German Association of Cities has reacted with concern to the victory of the AfD candidate in the mayoral election in Pirna. "The citizens of Pirna have decided. That is democracy, but the result is very worrying for us at the German Association of Cities. Because it shows that a rift is running ..